Controversy over Noah's Flood in the Black Sea: Geological and foraminiferal evidence from the shelf

The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 149-203

  Yanko Hombach, Valentina V ^a  

^a Avalon Institute of Applied Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

benthic foraminifera; Black Sea; flood; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; re colonization; salinity; sea level

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249947234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_7     Document Type: Chapter

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